Scarcely Perceptible Quotes

#1. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

Robert Musil

#4. He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).

Rick Riordan

#5. Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.

Iman Abdulmajid

#6. To retire is to begin to die.

Pablo Casals

#7. A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.

K.R. Royal

#8. Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

Johnny Carson

#10. My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Emma Forrest

#11. I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Jackie DeShannon

#12. For who would live if life held no allurements?

Lewis Howard Latimer

#13. I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.

Alex Turner

#14. Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

Seth MacFarlane

#15. I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Carlton Cuse

#16. We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.

Epiphana Lewis